Youth in the 21st Century: Debating and Producing Media
Youth in the 21st Century: Debating and Producing Media is a regional series of workshops that will be held during the summer and early autumn of 2010 throughout the world.
Youth throughout the world increasingly are not only consumers of media information, but also producers of it. Through newly accessible tools of new media such as blogs and open source software to edit video, audio and visual information, youth can communicate their ideas to the outside world in ways never dreamt of only 15 or 20 years ago. Yet these new tools do not come without complications. Accessibility may lead to information saturation and actually make it more difficult to use new media effectively. The responsible usage of media is made more difficult when people producing information that does not adhere to traditional journalistic standards. Furthermore, each young person consuming or producing media is embedded in a society and regional context that may have unique notions of how the media and citizens interact.
The purpose of Youth in the 21st Century: Debating and Producing Media is for youth to come together with other youth from their country and region to learn about these issues, debate them, and produce media projects about the relationship between media and society. Participants will debate issues relating to how the media and youth do and should interact. To provide a background for debates, participants will conduct background research and have the chance to interact with local and regional experts in the journalism field. Finally, participants will improve their skills in actually producing new media by learning from instructors and making their own media project.
Southeast Asia
For youth aged 18-29:
July 5-18, 2010
Chaing Mai, Thailand
